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01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

'56), former head of McKinsey & Company worldwide and president of The Bendix Corporation and now chairman and CEO of Avenir, a private investment group, became founding chairman of the Trinity Forum in 1991. An "academy without walls,"... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

and go to Harvard.'" And that's what she did, working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

and McKinsey consultant, Aaron Pempel (HBS MBA '98) has lived full time in Mexico for nearly two years as a Nike executive. "I absolutely believe there are emerging global universal standards for work, driven to a great extent by the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

led to a McKinsey Award–winning 2010 Harvard Business Review article. Now, with the help of former HBR editor Karen Dillon (who conceived of and edited the 2010 article) and his former student James Allworth (MBA 2010), Christensen has... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

several countries as a Monitor and McKinsey consultant, Aaron Pempel (MBA ’98) has lived full-time in Mexico for nearly two years as a Nike executive. “I absolutely believe there are emerging global universal standards for work, driven to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Shantanu Rege

"midlife crisis," Shantanu joined McKinsey & Co. for a year- and a-half, then took a deeper dive into finance. "It was 2008, and a lot of U.S. private-equity firms were expanding in India," he says. "I saw it... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

working for a U.S. government- funded venture-capital firm in Slovakia, Kubicova gained the necessary baseline work experience at home before joining McKinsey & Company in Prague and Cleveland. Kubicova now works in London as an associate... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

10 Nov 2015
First Look

November 10, 2015

raised eyebrows because of her youth and because her career at McKinsey had given her no day-to-day bank management experience. ING, however, wanted a younger leader who could relate to Turkey's young and digitally savvy population. Upon... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

potentially vaccine-resistant. McKinsey & Co. argues that hoping for herd immunity in the United States and United Kingdom by October 2021 is optimistic, pointing out the likely possibility of “unexpected safety issues emerging with... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

offerings via acquisitions. McKinsey alone bought over 30 smaller firms to seed new skills and open new client opportunities, which produced challenges in integration and cultural alignment. All of this created heterogeneous professional... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

01 Oct 2002
News

Karen Gordon Mills

weeklong commencement and reunion activities, she recalls, “I had nearly two dozen events, involving hundreds of guests. But it's not always like that, and there's not a piece of it I would change.” A onetime McKinsey consultant, Mills... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

veteran Valleyite Christina L. Darwall (MBA '75). For more than two decades, Darwall has been a player in the Valley's business community, working first for McKinsey & Co., where she became a principal, and then as senior vice president... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Harvard Business School

has provided senior–level strategic management advice and recruitment leadership as a member of McKinsey & Co., Russell Reynolds, and Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) senior management. He also serves on the boards of A Better... View Details

09 Jun 2017
News

Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

my own. I actually really enjoyed working for McKinsey because I didn't have to deal with the jammed printer or copy machine. But this was back in 1999. I was leading a pro-bono project for McKinsey working... View Details

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

appointment to the Harvard Faculty in 1966, Hayes worked for IBM and McKinsey & Company. He is currently the School's Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. Martha Lagace: You write in the book that many... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Jr. (MBA '56), former head of McKinsey & Company worldwide and president of The Bendix Corporation and now chairman and CEO of Avenir, a private investment group, became founding chairman of the Trinity Forum in 1991. An "academy... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

president - McKinsey & Company's Marvin Bower (MBA '30) reported on the effort to "streamline Bulletin make-up and typography." Content of the quarterly magazine was dominated by the School's involvement in wartime training courses,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

So it was with great interest that I looked over the results of a recent small, unscientific survey by McKinsey of what CEOs were reading this summer. The most frequently mentioned book somehow had escaped my attention: The Seventh Sense:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg requested that Zuckerberg provide her with... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

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